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To: Don Dorsey who wrote (277)	5/3/1998 4:12:00 PM
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NCTA: What's Hot, What's Not in Technology? By LESLIE ELLIS Several new shifts promise to make the technology side of this week's National Show in Atlanta an eye-opener. At the same time, watch for this week's show to mark the starting point in the cable product cycle when technology hands off the broadband baton to programming. "I think you'll see a groundswell of programmer activity around digital video, and not just a few advocates," said Dan Pike, vice president of science and technology for Prime Cable, who added, "We've been watching for it to happen." What's hot? Digital set-tops showing enhanced services, like e-mail and Internet access will be front and center in many manufacturers' booths. General Instrument Corp., for one, is planning to debut a prototype of its DCT-5000 set-top, scheduled to become commercially available next year. GI already holds an order for 15 million DCT-5000 boxes from a consortium of MSOs, and is planning to focus on new applications that will ride on that box, said David Robinson, vice president and general manager of GI's Digital Video division. "This will be our first public demonstration of the DCT-5000, and some of the applications possible with it," Robinson said. Scientific-Atlanta Inc. will also shine the spotlight on its digital-video solution, the Explorer 2000, which is scheduled to ship to 30 undisclosed metro markets this year, said company CEO James McDonald. "I think [show attendees] will see a whole focus on networks, products, and software that runs on top of those -- how analog and digital work together," he said. McDonald described this year's event as "one with more transitions than we've ever seen in the past, from analog to digital, and from hardware to software." Also hot: Video-on-demand all over again, this time with at least six vendors showing ways to deliver movies and other content to subscriber TVs. Suppliers like Diva Systems Inc., Intertainer Inc., S-A/SeaChange International Inc. and others will describe why VOD is back -- because equipment costs have plummeted and standards are available.